Founder's message

Aug 12, 2020 4 Min Read

Daisaku Ikeda Welcomes New Students to the Soka Community

I would like to express my heartfelt felicitations to the proud and poised members of the Undergraduate Class of 2024 and Master of Arts in Educational Leadership and Societal Change Program of Soka U...

Feb 20, 2005 21 Min Read

A Discussion Between Daisaku Ikeda and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai

On the afternoon of February 18, 2005, SGI President Ikeda met with renowned Kenyan environmentalist and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai at the Seikyo Shimbun building in Shinano-machi, ...

Exterior shot of Founders Hall from across Peace Lake

Aug 9, 2023 4 Min Read

Founder's Message — Welcome to the Undergraduate Class of 2027 and the 10th Class of the Master’s Program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change

August 8, 2023

Open new pathways to our collective future through intrepid scholarship! Embrace the world with dialogue inspired by courage!

Aerial Drone image of Soka University of America's campus during sunset with a pink and purple sky

May 26, 2023 4 Min Read

Founder's Message - 19th Commencement Ceremony

Message from SUA Founder Daisaku Ikeda to the Class of 2023

Immeasurable potential lies dormant within the great earth of every individual’s sublime life.

Aerial View of Founder's Hall and Peace Lake with the sun beaming on the horizon

Aug 15, 2022 3 Min Read

Founder's Message — Welcome to the Undergraduate Class of 2026 and the Ninth Class of the Master’s Program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change

August 9, 2022

What is needed now more than ever is to forge the kind of solidarity that transcends every difference, from nation-states and ethnicities to thought and religion, and to create a sustainable global so...

May 27, 2022 4 Min Read

Founder's Message - 18th Commencement Ceremony

Message from SUA Founder Daisaku Ikeda to the Class of 2022

Now more than ever, I ask you to manifest the true value of Soka’s global citizens, doing so in good cheer with wisdom and resilience, to brighten our world in this century from the stage of your resp...

Aug 16, 2021 4 Min Read

Founder's Message — Welcome to the Undergraduate Class of 2025 and the Eighth Class of the Master’s Program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change

August 10, 2021

The time that each of you spend on this campus, cheerfully learning to forge the spirit of indomitability with your fellow students day after day—that is from whence a new world will emerge in this ce...

Daisaku Ikeda looks at large photo of the plans for the SUA Aliso Viejo campus

May 28, 2021 4 Min Read

Founder's Message - 17th Commencement Ceremony

Message from SUA Founder Daisaku Ikeda to the Class of 2021

My beloved graduates, I envision firmly clasping every one of your hands, to send you off with this exhortation: May you brighten civilization in the 21st century like the dawn beaming with hope!

Looking down at Soka's Peace Lake at dusk

May 20, 2020 5 Min Read

Founder's Message to the Class of 2020

A Message from SUA Founder Daisaku Ikeda

My beloved graduates of the Classes of 2020, you are the hope and jewel of inestimable value for all humankind. I will always be watching over you, praying for your health and success, that your liv...

Aug 10, 2019 7 Min Read

Founder's Message - 15th Commencement Ceremony

Aliso Viejo, California | May 24, 2019

This day marks the time in which you — members of the Class of 2019 — take wing as youthful leaders of global citizenry who will contribute to the peace and happiness of humankind.